Indirect Spend · Strategic Sourcing
8–22% takeout on addressable spend.
Categories re-baselined against Hebron benchmarks, then sourced and negotiated to the new number, in waves, tracked to the P&L.
Cost Reduction & Profit Improvement Consulting
Take cost out.
Lift EBITDA.
Make it stick.
Hebron Advisory Group delivers measurable cost reduction and margin improvement for mid-market companies and PE portfolios. Strategic sourcing run end-to-end, savings tracked to the P&L, and proprietary benchmarks and AI tooling that keep the gains from eroding.
Industries we serve
- Healthcare
- Financial Services
- Private Equity
- Industrial & Manufacturing
- Retail & Consumer
- Technology
What we do
Find the savings. Book them. Keep them.
Cost takeout and margin improvement first, delivered by senior operators, then the analytics and AI tooling that stop the savings from eroding.
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Cost Reduction & Strategic Sourcing
Zero-based, benchmark-led cost takeout across indirect spend, COGS, SG&A, and working capital, with strategic sourcing run end-to-end. Fixed-fee, contingent / share-of-savings, retainer, or hybrid pricing.
How we cut costs → 02Profitability & EBITDA Improvement
Pricing architecture, margin-leakage closure, customer and SKU rationalization, and operating-model redesign, sequenced to move EBITDA quarter over quarter.
Explore margin work → 03Custom SaaS & AI Solutions
Spend intelligence, dashboards, and AI agents that defend the savings, plus custom platforms for retail, hospitality, healthcare, financial services, and beyond.
See our platforms →Our approach
Engagements designed to pay for themselves.
Hebron is built for cost work: lean teams of senior operators who’ve run these programs from the inside, starting from benchmarks rather than last year’s budget. Savings are identified in the first weeks, and on contingent engagements, we don’t get paid until you do.
- Senior-led teams, no leverage pyramid
- Contingent / share-of-savings pricing available
- Proprietary benchmarks refreshed quarterly
- Savings tracked to the P&L, not a slide
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Diagnose
Two-week baseline against benchmarks, with a quantified opportunity map.
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Design
Initiative-level business cases, sequenced for cash, capability, and risk.
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Deliver
Side-by-side execution with management, tracked to the P&L.
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Durably scale
Tooling, dashboards, and playbooks transferred to your team.
Where the money comes from
The levers, and what they typically return.
Pricing · Margin Leakage
200–500 bps of EBITDA within 12 months.
Pricing architecture rebuilt customer-by-customer; freight, rebate, and discount leakage closed with controls that hold.
SG&A · Operating Model
1.5–2.5% of payroll from layer and span redesign.
Organizational layers and spans re-baselined against functional benchmarks by industry and revenue band.
Anyone can find savings on a slide. We source them, negotiate them, and book them to the P&L, then leave behind the tooling that keeps them there.
The Hebron approach
Custom SaaS & AI
The tooling that keeps the savings.
Cost programs erode without a data layer to defend them. Hebron designs and builds custom AI software, from spend intelligence to forecasting, for retail, hospitality, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and beyond. Trained on your data. Deployed in your environment, transferred to your team.
- Spend & Procurement Intelligence. Spend analytics, embedded benchmarks, OCR contract repository, supplier intelligence.
- Document AI. Extract structured data from contracts, policies, claims, and invoices in minutes, not weeks.
- Operational Dashboards. Bespoke KPI tooling that pulls from your systems and surfaces what matters daily.
- Custom AI Agents & Copilots. Workflow agents, decision-support copilots, and risk monitors shaped to your processes.
- Forecasting & Decisioning Models. Demand, pricing, and risk models built on your historical data with appropriate governance.
A sample build in action
Concrete insights, the day after we light it up.
Three views from a sample procurement intelligence deployment. Each Hebron platform is configured for your taxonomy and trained on your data, these examples are illustrative.
Spend Analytics
14.2% of indirect spend is off-contract.
Maverick spend, surfaced category-by-category, with the suppliers and POs driving it.
On-contract$104.8M
Off-contract leakage$17.3M
- IT Software$4.9M
- Professional Svc.$3.7M
- Logistics$2.8M
Contract Repository · OCR + AI
23 unfavorable clauses flagged across your top-10 MSAs.
Auto-renewal, exclusivity, price escalation, and indemnity terms extracted and benchmarked against best-in-class.
Acme Logistics, MSA
$8.4M / yr
- Auto-renewal, 90-day notice
- Annual price escalator capped at 6%
- Exclusivity on inbound freight
Supplier Intelligence
4 suppliers control 68% of IT spend.
Concentration, financial health, and benchmark deltas in a single supplier dossier, updated continuously.
- Northwind Cloud Med $12.4M
- Veritas Systems Low $8.9M
- Helix DataOps High $6.2M
- Kestrel ITS Med $4.8M
vs. Hebron benchmark
+11.4% above peer median
Illustrative views. Real client implementations are configured to your data, taxonomy, and category structure.
Insights
Field notes from the work.
Cost Reduction
Why “good benchmark” beats “great consultant” eight times out of ten.
Negotiations move when the data is undeniable. The categories where benchmarks alone unlock 6–12% savings.
Read →Procurement AI
Spend classification at 92% accuracy: a recipe.
The taxonomy decisions, prompt patterns, and review steps that move classification from 60% to 92%.
Read →Private Equity
Value creation playbook: the first 100 days after close.
What to fund, what to defer, and which two cost levers we’d pull first in almost any portco diligence.
Read →